402 ])r, J. L. Hancock's Further Studies of 



dorsal disc Ixdiiud the slioulders fusco-liiinacultite ; vertex narrower 

 than one of the eyes in the male, subequal in the female, little 

 narrowed forward, transversely carinate, the carinultc rather roundly 

 conipresso-elevated on each side, middle lightly carinate, in profile 

 not advanced beyond the eyes ; fi-ontal costa arcuately elevated 

 between the antennae, rather widely sulcate, the rami straight ; 

 antennaj short and not as long as the head, inserted distinctly below 

 or anterior to the eyes. Pronotum depressed, anteriorly truncate, 

 dilated between the distinct humeral angles, c-arinte laterally little 

 compressed just behind the shoulders, the subulate apical process 

 lengthily extended backward beyond the posterior femoral a])ices ; 

 dorsum rugose tuberculate, between the shoulders bearing abbre- 

 viated carinulaj ; median carina bicristate forward, strongly sinuate 

 just before the shoulders, the forward crest often little higher than 

 tlie second elevation ; median carina i)Osteriorly very little com- 

 pressed and straight, minutely serrate ; lateral carin;c strongly com- 

 pressed at the shoulders, posteriorly on the process serrulate ; pro- 

 zonal carina}, short, little expressed and parallel ; posterior angles 

 of the lateral lobes distinctly flattened quadrate, the posterior angles 

 obtuse, behind obliquely truncate. Elytra oval ; wings fully ex- 

 plicate, extended backward beyond the pronotal process in the 

 female, or not at all in the male. Anterior femora strongly com- 

 pressed, margins above sinuate, below foliaceo-trilobate, the middle 

 lobe large with sinuate margin ; posterior femora scabrous and 

 having the external area between the carinas tuberculose, the 

 external carinae bidentate or lobate in the female ; hind tibi* 

 fuscous marked with white at the middle and near the knees ; first 

 article of the posterior tarsi longer than the third, the third pulvilli 

 little longer than the rest. 



Entire length of body, male and female, 9"8-ll*5 mm. ; pronotum 

 9-10"5 mm. ; posterior femora 4-4"r) nim. 



One male and one female example from Salisbury, 

 5000 ft., in Mashonaland, taken November 11, 1905 ; 

 presented by Mr. Guy Marshall to the University Museum, 

 Oxford. 



Genus Platytettix, Hancock. 



1. P. reticulattts, Hancock, Ent. News, Philadelphia, p. 88, 

 1906. 



One male and one female ; W. W. Saunders' collection, 

 presented by Mrs. F. W. Hope to the University Museum, 

 Oxford. 



The female example bears the locality Amazon, and was 



